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Used Bikes

Used Stumpjumper FSR Comp

Used Stumpjumper FSR Comp 120

This might be the full suspension bike that you really wanted ten years ago. It had Fox suspension, Shimano XTR parts, Avid hydraulic disc brakes, and it wasn’t too expensive, coming in around $2500.
Well, how about now? It’s used, but still in great shape. We’ve replaced the chain, cassette, and some of the more consumable bike parts. We’ve tuned this one up, and it’s ready to ride. This is a medium size, you get a full year warranty from us, and it’s all yours for about half the original price, only $1199.

Used Univega Mountain Bike

Univega mountain bike $379

Walking is slow.

Come on in and buy this Univega mountain bike and you can get around much faster.

Perfect for someone between 5’4” and 5’7” tall. This bike is about 20 years old, but it has some good parts on it, and it has been updated a few times. You get disc brakes, Shimano Deore parts and orange Oury grips!

All yours for $379

Surly Steamroller

Used Surley Steamroller $699

Wow, a “used” bike price for a bike that was “used” for about 10 minutes.
This is a 56cm Surly Steamroller, built up as a speedy road machine.

This one has a flip/flop Surly hub so you can alternate between fixed gear and coasting down hill (or run two different gear options). The rims are brand new, and the wheels are fast and tough.

This is a large size bike, and it will fit a rider between 5’8” and 5’10” the best. All yours for $699

Cannondale SR 800 road bike

Used Cannondale SR800 60cm $399

It’s been 25 years since this was the latest and greatest road bike that Cannondale had to offer, but all of those years haven’t diminished what is a fast and fun road bike.

This one is in new condition, with a Shimano 600 Ultegra component group that has almost no wear. You get a fairly light and stiff aluminum frame, and beautiful paint that won’t betray the bike’s age.

60cm size (with a 58cm top tube) Good for a rider who’s over 5’11” tall. $399

Used Scattante Single-Speed

Used Scattante Americano $199

Do you like simple choices? Yes or no? How about a bike that goes when you pedal it and stops when you pull on the brake levers. No need to adjust or figure out how to work your shifters. This Scattante Americano is simple and a great reponse to excessive technology.

This bike has a snappy and strong steel frame, bullhorn handlebars, a new crankset and chain, and a flip-flop rear hub that lets you choose between coasting down hills or pedaling a fixed gear.

It will fit a rider between 5’9” and 6’ tall the best. Only $199

Used kids’ bikes

Used Jet 20 $145

Burnout 20 $159

Raleigh Rowdy $179

DB Cobra $139

DB Cobra $139

Used Hotrock 20

Jet 20 in black

Giant MTX $139

We have a trade-up program for kids’ bikes, therefore we have used kids’ bikes for you to buy. The selection varies, so check in here or visit the store to see what we have on hand.

These bikes are usually ones that we originally sold, and lots of them even come with the original warranty. we tune-up each bicycle to make sure that they are safe and ready for the next child to enjoy. Some bikes have new parts, and we’ll stand behind all of our used bikes for one year.

Used Giant Cadex road bike

Used carbon Giant $499

This is a 54cm Giant Cadex 980 road bike from the ’90′s.

The frame is made from lightweight carbon fiber that is bonded into aluminum lugs. The fork is aluminum, and you get a Shimano 105 component group that is in great condition. The wheels are in great shape and the tires are basically new. The saddle, cables, brake pads, bar tape, chain and bottom bracket are in new condition. The bike rides great, is super-light, and looks cool.

The bike doesn’t have very many miles on it, and was recently traded in for a mountain bike.

This Giant weighs 19 pounds as it sits. It will ideally fit a rider between 5’5″ and 5’8″ tall and it’s only $499.

1999 Bianchi Milano

Bianchi Milano

Sometimes old dogs can learn new tricks.

Bianchi is the oldest bicycle company that is still making bicycles today. They were founded in 1885, and being over a hundred years old, most people wouldn’t expect anything terribly innovative from them.

Bianchi surprised everyone in the 1990′s as they showed off a number of new tricks. With a half-dozen models that debuted between 1992 and 1999, Bianchi pushed the bicycle industry to try new things and reinvent itself in different ways.

A Bianchi PUSS (Pink Ugly Single Speed)

A surprisingly innovative company

There was the Bianchi Pista, which was really the only off-the-rack track bike available for nearly a decade. There was a Bianchi cyclocross frame and a complete cyclocross racing bike in an era when only obscure one-off imported versions were available. Bianchi made a commuter-style road bike in the late ’90′s called the Castro Valley that sported a single front chainring (the latest 1x drivetrain anyone?) and a generator-powered headlight. There was the Bianchi BOSS (Bitchin’ Orange Single-Speed) and its siblings; single-speed mountain bike framesets and complete bikes that were fun to ride, good looking, really light, readily available and quite affordable.

Integrated lights!

7-speed shifting and brakes in the hub

There was the Bianchi Milano. It made waves as a really cool “hybrid” bike. It was a utility bike so different and attractive that even the most snobbish bicycle racers wanted to ride one. Not only was the Milano a success for Bianchi, it was a suggestion for other bike brands to follow Bianchi onto radical new paths. Commuter bikes that looked fun. High-performance hybrids. Silly gimmicks (a saddle with integrated lights?) that weren’t all that silly.

Arc bars, fake leather grips

Café Racer

This Milano is from 1999 or 2000. The bike is built around a 7000-series aluminum frame (with either an arched top tube like this one or with the top tube inverted to make a low step-over frame) and a cromoly steel fork. There’s a Shimano Nexus 7-speed rear hub to handle the shifting and rear braking duties, cleaning up the lines of the bike and providing some extra foul-weather protection for what is still essentially a bike designed for utility. There’s a chain guard! Faux leather-wrapped foam grips! A sweeping arc handlebar that complimented the sweep of the top tube and rake of the fork.

Thanks to Bianchi and the success of the Milano, it is now possible to buy a carbon-fiber cruiser. Big bike brands now offer cyclocross bikes (and track bikes, and triathlon bikes, and snow bikes). People who love the technical aspect of bicycling can get good-looking high-performance bikes in all kinds of random usage niches.

2005 20″ frame size Milano $549

Want one of these for yourself? We have a 20″ Milano from the early 2000′s in nearly new condition, and it’s for sale for only $549

Used Linus Gaston 3

Used Linus Gaston 3 $469

Do you like the way that older steel bikes look? Do you want a vintage ride but you can’t tell the difference between “collectable” and merely “old”? Want a great bike to cruise around on?

Check out this Linus 3-speed.

It’s a 2017 model with only a handful of miles on it. It has all of the style that you’re searching for in an older bike with none of the quirky older parts. The shifter shifts. The brakes stop. The seat is comfortable, the tires are durable, the wheels are strong. There won’t be any strange French fittings to deal with when you need to replace parts (unlike that Peugeot 10 speed from 1974 that you were eyeing).

This is a large frame, and it will work the best for a rider between 5’9″ and 6′ tall. This is still a current model and they go for $669 brand new. Buy this one slightly used for only $469 (with a full year warranty) from us.

Used Cannondale Synapse

Used Cannondale Synapse

A Cannondale Synapse road bike that’s under $1000! This Cannondale is from 2010, and it’s made out of butted aluminum tubing and feather-light carbon fiber. It’s outfitted with Shimano 105 27-speed components and Mavic Aksium wheels. It’s a pretty sporty bike and it has high-performance parts all around. There’s a carbon-fiber seat post, Shimano SPD clipless pedals and a 105 triple crankset. The Maxxis Fuse tires are nearly brand new.

The frame is Cannondale’s small/medium size (52cm top tube) and will fit a rider between 5’3″ and 5’6″ pretty well. $849 and it’s all yours.

Raleigh M60 mountain bike

Raleigh M60 $319

Here’s a nice bike for getting around town. It’s an old Raleigh mountain bike model M60. The parts are all in great shape (mostly Shimano Deore and Alivio components), and a few items are brand new.
This bike has combination street/off-road tires on it, and it’s all ready for urban utility work by installing rack and fenders, or off-road riding as it sits. A nice old mid-level mountain bike, all yours for $319.

To be comfortable on this bike, you’ll need to be between 5’8″ and 5’11″ tall.

Used Felt Verzas (our rental bikes)

Felt Verza Cafe Deluxe

Need a good bike for riding to work or cruising around the neighborhood?

We have a few of our rental bikes for sale.

We try to keep our rental fleet looking shiny and new, so every so often we put a few of the old bikes up for sale. These bikes are in tip-top condition (they were brand new last October) with plenty of miles left in them. We check them over nearly every day during our rental season, and the tourists who ride them usually just pedal the few miles to Fort Ward and back.

These Verza Cafe models come with fenders, a cargo rack, seat bag, coffee cup holder, excellent maintenence records and pretty fresh components. All for only $450 to $550 depending on the bike’s condition and size (they’re $700 brand new). These bikes come with a full warranty.

We have two medium size bikes still available. Currently we have the traditional frame style (gunmetal grey color) that should fit a rider between 5’3″ and 5’8″ quite well.

Spezzotto Custom

Spezzotto custom

The name Spezzotto has been kicking around the Italian bike racing world for a long time.
There was a bike mechanic named Ricardo Spezzotto who worked in the Treviso area in the 1920′s. We think it was Ricardo’s son Antonio Spezzotto who opened a bike shop in Conegliano in the 1950′s. We know for sure that in the 1970′s a second-tier pro team G.S. Serrande raced around on Spezzotto bikes. It’s a fact that today you could walk into Cicli Spezzotto if you’re in the Treviso area and roll out with a new bike.

Chorus crankset

Columbus tubing

Campy Neutron wheels

Want a Spezzotto road bike but don’t want to walk all the way to Italy? You can walk into our shop and roll out with one now.

This frame was a trade-in. It was made in the early ’90′s of Columbus Aluthron aluminum tubing, and it will fit a rider in the 5’5″ to 5’7″ height range quite well.

Record carbon levers

Record carbon derailleur

We built the bike with a mix of Campagnolo Chorus and Record equipment, it has Campy Neutron model wheels and a Kestrel carbon fiber handlebar. While it looks like a bit of a vintage ride, the materials and design are quite modern. You get a compact crankset so the gearing is pretty easy on the hills, and with all of the carbon fiber bits and pieces the bike end up weighing only 18 pounds. Oh, and it will only set you back $1500.

56cm Mondonico Futura Leggero

56cm Mondonico

Ride with retro style!

We hate to use terms like “retro” with bikes that are only ten years old, but lugged steel tubing looks a bit different compared to today’s carbon fiber.

Well, it’s not totally retro. That’s a straight-blade Alpha Q carbon fork, and the frame is made from nivacrom steel (not heavier cromoly tubing)
To compliment the traditional look of this Columbus Nemo steel tubing frameset we have selected traditional-looking (but very high-tech Campagnolo Chorus components.

Mondonico Futura Leggero framesets typically sell for $2500 on their own. Campagnolo Chorus equipment and Chris King headsets aren’t cheap, either. So… How much? You can buy this red beauty today all built up as you see it for only $1499!

Used LeMond Big Sky SL road bike

Used LeMond Big Sky SL $599

This will be a beloved road bike for somebody out there.
It’s a 56cm LeMond Big Sky from about 10 years ago. The Big Sky was a sporty touring model, and it has some nice features like wide-range gearing, Shimano 105 components, Mavic Ksyrium wheels and Continental 28mm wide touring tires. The bike comes with cyclocross-style secondary brake levers, and you can have it with standard pedals or SPD-style pedals. It’s a great bike for commuting, randoneering and light touring.
The aluminum frame is springy and comfortable, and the wheels (which like the rest of the bike have only a few hundred miles on them) are robust and really light.
This is a 56cm frame size, which should fit a rider between 5’8″ and 5’10″ tall really well. All yours for only $599.

Really cool, and a really good price. This bike is lightly used, will fit a rider between 5’10″ and 6’1″ tall really well and it’s only $1750 (or about $2000 less than when it was new).

Classic Eddy Merckx

1988 Eddy Merckx Corsa

Having a classic ride is awesome.
Classic styling, a nostalgic vibe, maybe the chance to have something that you always wanted but didn’t have the money to buy the first time around.
Check out this vintage Eddy Merckx. A Columbus steel Corsa frameset painted in the iconic Faema team colors. It’s from the late ‘80’s, a time when aerodynamic and modern (looking) parts were fitted to bicycle frames that seemed identical to those made in the 1930’s.

This Merckx is outfitted with the Campagnolo’s 2nd tier Croce d ‘Aune group. Named after a mountain pass in the Italian Dolomite mountains where Tulio Campagnolo was inspired to invent the bicycle wheel quick release. It’s a beautiful component Gruppo, and you can’t have it on your bike unless you can pronounce it (say crow-che down).

Croce d’Aune Delta brakes

Croce d’Aune rear derailleur

In 1988 every bike racer out there (except Gavin) loved Campagnolo, or at least loved the way Campagnolo bike parts looked. The “C” Record component group was the top of the line, and the most beautiful and prestigious, but the Croce d’Aune group had some amazing design elements. I loved the Croce rear derailleur and the brake calipers.

The rear derailleur had a different cable attachment than anything else Campagnolo has ever made. The housing stopped on the top of the derailleur and slid across a grooved plate (much like today’s Sram derailleurs). There was a cool looking steel rod on the bottom of the rear derailleur, and to this day we’re not really sure how it helps the derailleur move but it sure looks great.

Cinelli Pinochio stem

Croce d’Aune crankset

San Marco Regal saddle

The brake calipers from this component group are amazing. Just like the Record level “Delta“ brakes these are more style than substance (they don’t stop very well), but they look terrific on any bike. This version has return springs outside of the triangular body instead of having the mechanism stuffed inside. The spring detail looks similar to us to the little rod on the rear derailleur.

By the way, this one is for sale from our museum collection It’s a 56cm bike, good for someone between 5’8” and 5’10” tall. It’s all yours for only $1399.

Used 60cm Titanium Road Bike

Used 60cm Ti bike $1299

How would you like a nice 18-pound titanium road bike for only $1299?
You’ll have to be fairly tall, this one is pretty big with a 58cm top tube. Let’s call it pretty ideal for a rider between 5’11″ and 6’3″ tall.
The components are all in really nice shape. Highlights include a Campagnolo Centaur group, Thompson seatpost, Chris King headset, Campy Proton wheels, Selle Italia gel flow saddle, a carbon fork and Bontrager handlebars and stem.
Admittedly we don’t know who made the frame. It could be a litespeed or a Mongoose titanium from about 10 years ago, or it could be somebody else entirely. Whatever it is, it rides great and is in beautiful shape.

Used Schwinn Hybrid

Used Schwinn hybrid

We have a nice Schwinn hybrid bike available.
It probably sounds like a used car cliché to suggest that this bike was ridden just a couple of times and put in the back of the garage, but that’s what it looks like.
Great for cruising around your neighborhood. Terrific for riding to work, school or to the grocery store. The parts are reliable and the aluminum frame will provide a nice comfortable ride.
This is a small size. The bike should work for riders between 5′ and 5’5″ tall.
The equipment on this bike is mid-range and only lightly used (it could pass for new), but you’ll still save a hundred bucks over buying one of these brand new. It’s only $219.

1979 Cornelo Super

1979 Cornelo Super

You know, you look just like this bicycle I know. Are you related to an Italian bike named Colnago?

Why yes I am. I’m his step-brother.

In the 1970s, a Dutch bike shop owner named Henk Kokke made frequent visits to Italy. On one of his trips he bought a couple of racing frames from Ernesto Colnago. There was one frame for Henk’s son Corné and one for racer Bart van Est. The exotic Colnagos drew quite a bit of attention in the Netherlands and it became apparent that the Italian frames would sell. Henk decided to start his own imported brand. He came up with an Italian-sounding moniker (rooted in the name of his son Corné) and contracted with Ernesto Colnago to build the bikes. As far as we know, Cornelo frames are still available today and they’re built the same way. The frames are still bought in Italy, painted in Belgium and assembled in St. Willebrord, The Netherlands.

Dura-Ace 7200 EX crankset

1978 Dura-Ace brakes

Shimano slant parallelogram derailleur

This particular Cornelo is constructed much like the Colnago Supers of the era. The Colnago club emblems have been omitted, but the Columbus SL tubing, the build precision and the wonderful ride characteristics are all there.

Cornelo head badge

Brooks B17

This bike, being of such international flavor, is a great showcase for the Japanese Dura-Ace 7200 EX group. This Shimano component group is fairly similar to the popular Campagnolo Record of the time but with two notable design improvements. First, the rear derailleur has the slant parallelogram design first invented by Suntour in the 1960′s. This derailleur design keeps the distance between the top derailleur pulley and the freewheel cogs consistent no matter which gear you were in. Shifting with this design meant that the pull on the shift lever was easier. The other neat little design touch was the crank arm bolts that would double as their own crank arm extraction tool, a labor saving touch that mechanics loved.

Like this bike? It can be yours. This 52cm size (good for a rider 5’3″-5’6″ tall) is for sale out of our museum collection for $1200

2002 Moots YBB Mountain Bike

2002 Moots YBB Air

While not the very first mountain bike brand out there, Moots certainly can be called one of the “originals”.
Founded in 1981 by Kent Eriksen, the little Steamboat Springs bike company (that was named after Kent’s alligator-shaped pencil-top eraser Mr. Moots) has always led with great ideas and solid craftsmanship.
Back in the ’80′s, Moots was known as a fun custom shop that specialized in off-road frames, handlebars and stems. In 1983 Steve Tilford raced a Moots mountain bike to victory at the very first NORBA national championship and gave the creative brand instant racing credibility. In 1985 Moots came up with the first set of bar-ends for flat mountain bike handlebars. 1n 1987 Moots unveiled the YBB suspension seen here, and in 1991 they introduced their first titanium bike.

Mr. Moots Alligator head tube badge

The YBB Air soft-tail

This is a Moots YBB mountain bike from 2002.
The YBB (Why Be Beat) design is a signature style for Moots. In the 25 years or so that the YBB has been around the pivotless soft-tail has become one of the most copied suspension designs in the bike world. This variation, the YBB Air, utilizes a Rock Shox air canister to give the rider control over the spring rate and rebound characteristics of the rear end, managing the admittedly subtle single inch of rear travel.

Custom Sid fork

XTR all around

Joe Breeze designed dropouts

The front end of this bike features a custom Rock Shox Sid World Cup suspension fork. Hercules Castro, a friend of ours at Rockshox, built this fork out of the random ingredients lying around the office (in one of the Rockshox desx?). It has a carbon fiber crown and steerer, super light 28mm sliders with an experimental coating, white magnesium lowers and a prototype remote switch.

Shimano would be proud of the components bolted to this Moots. There are four generations of XTR parts working together. There ‘s the early generation XTR 950 hubs, the 960 brake levers, the 980 generation drivetrain and the 970 V-brakes that bring everything to a stop.

Like this bike? Gavin is selling it… $4K will make it yours.

1983 Guerciotti

1983 53cm Guerciotti $1000

Guerciotti is one of the great builders from Italy. Always a step or two out of the spotlight held by Colnago or Pinarello, Guerciotti’s bikes have all of the design elements of the more famous bikes but perhaps without the famous riders to bring notoriety. This version is made from Columbus SL tubing and has some great details all around. It is mostly equipped with Campy Nuovo Record components, with slightly more modern Mavic MA3 clincher rims in place of the original tubulars. The wheels are shod with Michelin Pro Race tires, and it even comes with a TA steel water bottle cage. Of course there is a Cinelli Unicanitor saddle and Cinelli bars & stem. The brakes are from Shimano, not Campagnolo. They are the very early Dura-Ace calipers and levers (probably a reaction to the extremely hard pull of Campagnolo brakes of the era).

front end detail

Record crankset

Cinelli Unicanitor saddle

For you serious Guerciotti fans out there, it’s one of the versions with the star cut out of the bottom bracket shell.
The bike has a 53 cm seat tube and top tube so it should fit a cyclist between 5’3″ and 5’6″ tall quite well.
This is not your run-of-the-mill used bike, but the price is still pretty reasonable at $1000.

Used and Vintage Parts

Trying to restore older bikes with original equipment can be tough. Trust us, we know.

’82 Super Record rear derailleur $100

We have a variety of random old parts here at the store. We’ll show off some of the cooler items here. If you need something but don’t see it here, come in or call. We may have the part tucked away in a box somewhere, or know where you can go to find it.

We have only a couple of rules concerning old equipment: First, there is no warranty. Bike parts typically only have a one year warranty from their manufacturer, and some of the companies involved have been gone for decades. Second, you have to be patient. If we offer to look through our personal stash for you, it takes a bit of time.

While we would prefer to sell these items to you in person, we can also send them to your door. We use U.S. Postal flat rate shipping and will ship only within the United States. Postage for small items run $10, medium size flat-rate boxes run $15 and larger items are $20 and up.

1992 Trek 9500 Suspension Mountain Bike

As of today, mountain bikes have been around for only about thirty years. There has been quite a bit of progress in a short amount of time.

This Trek 9500 from 1992 shows us some great leaps forward as well as some serious stumbles in mountain bike evolution.

Highlights include Shimano’s first edition XTR mountain bike component group. The engineering was superb, the cold-forged components were built to last for decades, and this group included many fantastic features like rapid-fire trigger shifting that we still use today.

Some designs were ahead of the curve.

The polyurethane spring stack was not a good idea.

Shimano XTR managed 24 gears

Trek’s DDS3 suspension fork had some nice touches too. It used a schraeder valve to fill the air chambers unlike Rock Shox’s needle valve of the time, and the adjustable air-sprung fork was closer to what we use now than the brief bike industry-wide foray into elastomer bumper forks.

This bike stretched you out a long way...

The lowlight had to be the rear suspension design, which moved like an inch-worm, with little spring rebound control and no suspension isolation from pedaling forces.

This bike came from Reliable Cycle, our Classic Cycle satellite store in the Rolling Bay neighborhood on Bainbridge Island. This bike was part of the regular inventory, and it got folded into the museum collection when the store closed in 1998.

Want to own one of Trek’s more embarrassing designs (with Shimano’s most beautiful XTR component groups on it)? All yours for $1994

Used 2013 Specialized Roubaix Elite

Used 2013 Specialized Roubaix Elite $1799

This is actually a new bike.

A new 2013 Specialized Roubaix Elite in fact. It’s a large frame (56cm) and should fit someone between 5’9″ and 5’11″ quite well. The frame is all carbon fiber, the components are Shimano 105, and the wheels are from DT Swiss.

The best thing about this Specialized? You don’t have to walk into a Specialized dealer’s bike shop to get it. You can get it from us.

All yours for only $1799 (originally $2700).

Used Fuji Tread

Used Fuji Tread

This is a spectacular bike.
It’s a road/cyclocross/touring/gravel bike built with comfortable “endurance” geometry and a little bit snappier ride than traditional touring rigs. The head tube is extended a bit so the handlebars are in a comfortable high position.
The components are fantastic. There is a Shimano Tiagra drivetrain with a compact crankset (34/50 chainrings), Nearly new wheels featuring 35mm wide Ritchey Shield WCS tires, you get Shimano SPD pedals and an Oval Concepts saddle and cockpit parts. Additionally, you get a cartridge headset and a carbon fork. The bike is ready for foul weather riding with Tektro Spyre mechanical disc brakes and room for fenders.
This is a medium to large 56cm size, so it should fit a rider between 5’8″ and 5’11″ quite well. By the way, a rig like this would have run you about $1500 when it was brand new. You can buy it today for half of that, only $749!

Used LeMond tri bike

Used LeMond Limoges

A great deal on a fast tri bike.

This is a LeMond Limoges triathlon bike from around 2004. A super aerodynamic design that still climbs well, it features a mix of carbon fiber and hydroformed aluminum tubing.

This is a medium-sized 54cm frame, and will fit a rider between 5’5″ and 5’10″ really well. New, this rig would probably run you around $2500. Buy it now for only $979.

1940′s Colson Flyer

1940′s Colson Flyer

The restoration project.

Everybody loves good before and after photos. A bicycle restoration project is great at showing the damage that the decades can do, and you get to watch as that damage is erased with fresh paint or new chrome.

A while back, this balloon-tire cruiser came to us as a rusty old relic. The years were not kind to the old Colson. While the rust was not deep, it was everywhere. The owner, a fellow named Gerald Taylor, had a history with the bike and wanted to return the Flyer to its former glory.

Colson Flyer “before”

Gerald’s father had purchased the bike upon returning to the Seattle area from the second World War. Affordable cars were hard to come by in the months following the end of the war, and Gerald’s father figured he could get around on these two wheels just as well as he could with four. The bike served as a trusty commuter for a number of years before transitioning to recreational use, and finally retiring to the back of the garage.

The crankset “after”

The crankset “before”

The wheels were beyond repair. By removing the head badge and the reflectors, we were able to find clean bits of original paint, so the new colors would match. Parts were stripped off of the frame, and the dents were rolled out of the fenders.

Off to the painter (CycleSmith) went the frame, fork, fenders, and chainguard.

Into the recycling went the chain, pedals, and wheels.

The fenders “after”

The fenders “before”

Rusty bits like the chainring, seatpost, fork struts, handlebars and stem made their way to the chrome shop (Art’s chroming in Bremerton).

Some of the parts that you find on old bikes are still made today. No problem getting a Wald kickstand, and the reproductions of the pedals and saddle are well worth the price. Appropriate fasteners are just a quick trip to the hardware store (no allen bolts or torx heads on sixty year old bikes, thank you).

The head tube “after”

The head tube “before”

Jeff, who started collecting balloon-tire bikes decades ago, dug up some great matching wheels and tires from a “donor” bike. Fresh grease for the hubs and some new spokes made them roll and look just right.

Now, I’d like to say this was a quick project. But it wasn’t.

Sometimes it takes a while to find the right parts. You have to get on a painter’s schedule (some have months-long backlogs), and it takes a while to get chrome done (Art’s is actually quite fast). You may have seen the car and motorcycle restoration shows on television where things move lightning fast. They use an editor.

The headlight “after”

The headlight “before”

I truly wish we were able to finish this bike sooner, as Gerald missed the opportunity to see his beautiful bike all spruced up. Gerald fell ill and passed away a few weeks before we were able to finish the project.

The “After” photo is the way this bike would have looked when Gerald’s dad first brought it home.

This bike is for sale from the museum collection. It can be yours, fully restored, for $2500.

2003 Mondonico Pista

2003 Mondonico track bike

Antonio Mondonico made this bike for us in 2003. We asked him for a modern track bike that would steal some attention from the antiques on the walls. He delivered.

This Italian gem comes from a small workshop just outside of Milan. Built for sprint distance and mass start track events, it is made of extremely springy nivacrom steel, silver brazed into Mondonico’s custom lugs. The orange paint is about as subtle as a traffic signal. A bit of chrome here and there to remind us that this is not a plastic bike.

Aces, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds

Antonio Mondonico head badge

The machined quill stem matches the fluted seatpost

Custom Selle San Marco Rolls saddle

Columbus EL - OS Nivacrom tubing

The parts are a mix of modern classics. Paul Components made the gambler’s crankset, with the four card suits machined into the chainring. A fluted seatpost and machined stem harken back to the 1970s, while the paired-spoke design of the wheels says this is a modern build.

Antonio spent decades building bikes, and many famous Italian racers rode Mondonicos (even if they were painted in another brand’s colors). Unable to interest his son Mauro in taking over the family business, Antonio retired from bike building in 2007.

This bike is for sale from the museum collection. It is a 56cm frame, a good fit for a track rider between 5’9″ and 5’11″. $3000 will buy you this fantastic bit of Italian craftsmanship.

Bike Appraisals

Have an old bike that you’d like to get appraised?

We can help, but we have a few guidelines that we’d like you to understand.

First, we have no idea what your bike is worth without seeing it. We’re just not that smart. Don’t call us and try to describe it over the phone. Serial numbers do not help. Instead, you can send us an email with some pictures attached or bring your bike in to the store.

Take a photo from the “drive side” in front of a neutral background

To make the appraisal more accurate, prepare the bike and take photos like you would if you were going to sell it. Clean the bike, remove any broken or rough-looking accessories and put some air in the tires.
Take pictures straight on in front of a blank background, and take close-up photos of areas that may generate interest (or confusion).

There is no “Blue Book” value for bicycles. Bikes are simply worth what someone else is willing to pay for them. Bicycle values tend to be highest when the weather is warm, in places where it’s pleasant to ride, and wherever there are a lot of people who like bikes.

Badges or labels on the tubes help with identification

Close-ups of the parts tell a lot about your bike

You know more about your bike than we do. If you just bought a bike for $50, you have just established the value of the bicycle (and you are not likely to be able to sell it for $2000 to somebody else). You know when you bought it, so you have a good idea of the age, and you know if it was a high-end racing model or a basic bike from Walmart.

Rarity rarely helps determine value. If you have a one-of-a-kind bicycle, it may mean that no one has ever heard of it and/or nobody is looking for one.

Popularity is no indicator either. Bikes that were sold in large numbers could fall into one of two camps. You could have a bike that will never sell (Schwinn Varsity) because there are still thousands of them out there, or you could have a bike that will cause a bidding war (Bridgestone MB-1) because people rode them into the ground and they want another one.

If what you’re really after is to get rid of an old bike, keep us in mind. While we don’t buy bikes outright, we’ll likely take your old bike as a trade-in for something new….